New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. “Memorial of the Golden Wedding of Cornelius and Sophia Vanderbilt, December 19, 1863.” Alva Belmont, One Month’s Log of the Seminole (New York: privately published). National Woman’s party records.
William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C. The Matilda Young Papers contain the incomplete typewritten manuscript memoirs of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, and correspondence of Matilda Young, Mrs. Belmont’s secretary during the last several years of her life.
Rose Memorial Library, Drew University, Madison, N.J. The Thomas Gibbons Papers include letters written by Cornelius Vanderbilt to his employer Thomas Gibbons, as well as his employment contract.
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Jane Norman Smith, Alice Paul, and Doris Stevens collections contain suffrage movement papers of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont.
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, Staten Island, N.Y. Miscellaneous correspondence of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and records of the Supreme Court case of Cornelius Vanderbilt v. New York and Staten Island Ferry Co., 1851.
Whitney Museum of American Art Library, New York, N.Y. Papers of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
ARTICLES, CATALOGS, AND PAMPHLETS
“American Suffragist on the Defensive, An.” Review of Reviews, Vol. 12, January 1910.
Archer, Verley. “Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sophia Johnson and Their Descendants.” Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.), 1972.
Arnett, Frank S. “Luxuries of the Millionaires: Country Houses.’ Ainslee’s Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, August 1902.
Baids, Peter. “My Vanderbilt Movie.’ American Heritage, Vol. 38, No. 7, November 1987.
Baids, Peter. “Poor Jacob!” Forbes, Vol. 140, No. 9, October 26, 1987.
Barbour, Elizabeth. “How to Keep House on a Million Dollars a Year.’ Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 199, No. 28, March 19, 1927.
Barbour, Elizabeth, and Brenda Ueland. “Society Tightwads.’ Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 199, No. 42, April 16, 1927.
Barnett, Robert N. “Captains of Industry, Part XXIII: William Kissam Vanderbilt,” Cosmopolitan, Vol. 36, No. 5, March 1904.
Barron, Susan. “After the Ball.” New England Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, June 1987.
Belmont, Alva Vanderbilt. “Woman’s Right to Govern Herself.” North American Review, Vol. 190, No. 5, November 1909.
Belmont, Mrs. O.H.P. “Are Women Really Citizens?” Good Housekeeping, September 1931.
Belmont, Mrs. O.H.P. Foreword to “The Story of the Women’s War—by Mrs. Pankhurst.” Good Housekeeping, November 1913.
Belmont, Mrs. O.H.P. “Why I Am a Suffragist.” The World Today, October 1911.
Benway, Ann M. The Chinese Teahouse on the Grounds of Marble House. Newport, R.I.: The Preservation Society of Newport County, 1982.
Benway, Ann M. A Guide to Newport Mansions. Newport, R.I.: The Preservation Society of Newport County, 1984.
Biltmore Estate. Asheville, N.C.: The Biltmore Company, 1985.
“Biltmore Forest.” Harper’s Weekly, Vol. 44, July 28, 1900.
“Breakers, The.” Life, July 23, 1951.
Burck, Gilbert. “The World’s Biggest Merger.” Fortune Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 6, June 1965; Vol. 72, No. 1, July 1965.
Burnham, Alan. “The New York Architecture of Richard Morris Hunt.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. XI, No. 2, May 1952.
Cable, May. “The Marble Cottages.” Horizon (American), Vol. VII, No. 4, Autumn 1965.
Cherol, John A. “Historic Architecture: Richard Morris Hunt; Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt’s Marble House in Newport.” Architectural Digest, October 1985.
Chippendale and Other Georgian and Dutch Furniture, Tapestries and Other Appointments of Florham, Convent, N.J., Estate of the Late Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly. Catalog for public auction. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1955.
Clark, Frank. “The Commodore Left Two Sons: The Great Vanderbilt Will Contest.” American Heritage, Vol. 17, April, 1966.
Collection of W. H Vanderbilt Pamphlet. New York: privately published, 1884.
“Cornelius Vanderbilt.” The Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review, January 1865.
Crowninshield, Frank. “The House of Vanderbilt.” Vogue, November 15, 1941.
Dennett, }. R. “Vanderbilt Memorial.” Nation, November 18, 1869.
“Dinner at Mrs. Vanderbilt’s.” Life, Vol. 20, No. 23, June 10, 1946.
Dunford, Timothy. “Biltmore Garden.” Southern Accents, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 1982.
English and French Furniture; Oriental Rugs; Fabrics; Bronzes; Sculptures and Ivories; Tapestries; Silver; Porcelains and Glassware. Catalog for Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont sale. New York: American Art Association, 1928.
Ford, Frank Lewis. “The Vanderbilts and the Vanderbilt Millions.” Munsey’s Magazine, Vol. XXII, No. 4, January 1900.
Godkin, E. L. “The Expenditure of Rich Men.” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 4, October 1896.
Hendrick, Burton J. “The Astor Fortune.” McClure’s Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 6, April 1905.
Illustrated Catalogue of Costly Antique and Modern Furnishings, Interior Decorations and Embellishments of a New York City Palatial Mansion Which Was Designed by, and Erected and Furnished Under the Direct Supervision of the Distinguished American Architect, the Late Richard Morris Hunt For the William K. Vanderbilt residence at 660 Fifth Avenue. New York: American Art Association, October 17, 1921.
Insley, Rebecca H. “An Interview with Mrs. Astor.” Delineator, Vol. 72, October 1908.
Johnson, Gerald W. “Dynamic Victoria Woodhull.” American Heritage, Vol. VIII, No. 4, June 1956.
Knickerbocker, Cholly [Maury Paul]. “The Vital Vanderbilts.” Cosmopolitan, November 1939; December 1939; January 1940; February 1940.
Lee, Joseph. “Expensive Living, the Blight on America.” New England Magazine, Vol. XVIII, March 1898-August 1898.
“Life Visits the Vanderbilt Mansions.” Life, January 2, 1950.
Low, Seth. “Cornelius Vanderbilt.” Columbia University Quarterly, December 1899.
Lynes, Russell. “Chateau Builder to Fifth Avenue.” American Heritage, Vol. 6, No. 2, February 1955.
Maconi, Carole J. “Belcourt Castle.” Southborough, Mass.: Yankee Colour Corporation, 1985.
Marble House: The William Κ’. Vanderbilt Mansion. Newport, R.I.: The Preservation Society of Newport County, 1965.
“Mr. Vanderbilt’s Estate, Biltmore.” Scientific American, February 1, 1896.
“Mr. Vanderbilt’s Expenditure.’ The Spectator, January 26, 1895; February 2, 1895.
“Mrs. Vanderbilt: The Echo of an Elegant Era.” Life, June 16, 1941.
Mullet, Mary B. “Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Tells Why He Chooses to Work.” The American Magazine, Vol. 92, No. 2, August 1921.
Palmer, Joe H. “The Riddle of Alfred Vanderbilt.’ Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 225, No. 31, February, 21, 1953.
Patterson, Ada. “The Woman Who Talked.” Human Life, Vol. V, No. 1, April 1907.
“Pisgah Forest Purchase.” American Forestry, Vol. XX, No. 6, June 1914.
Plimpton, George. “The Voices of Two Venerable Vanderbilts.” Life, Vol. 57, No. 7, August 14, 1964.
Price, Overton Westfeldt. “George W. Vanderbilt: Pioneer in Forestry.” American Forestry, Vol. XX, No. 6, June 1914.
Private Collection of W. H Vanderbilt, The. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Press, 1879.
Queen Anne and Georgian Furniture, Tapestries, Paintings, K’ang Hsi Porcelains and Other Objects of Art, XVIII Century Colored Mezzotints, Antique Rugs, Belonging to the Estate of the Late Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly. Catalog for public auction. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1955.
“Queenly Kingfisher, The,” Life Magazine, January 19, 1953.
Robbins, Peggy. “The Commodore and His Money.” American History Illustrated, Vol. 19, No. 3, May 1984.
Robinson, Grace. �
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Schuyler, Montgomery. “A Newport Palace.” Cosmopolitan, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, August 1900.
Schuyler, Montgomery. “The Vanderbilt Houses.” Harper’s Weekly, Vol. 26, No. 42, January 21, 1882.
“Scrapping an Architectural Masterpiece.” American Architect and Building News, April 20, 1926.
Shearman, Thomas G. “The Coming Billionaire.” The Forum, Vol. X, January 1891.
Shearman, Thomas G. “The Owners of the United States.” The Forum, Vol.
VIII, November 1889.
“Splendor of a Great Family, The: The Vanderbilts.” Life, Vol. 57, No. 7, August 14, 1964.
Stein, Susan R. “Some of the New York City Houses of Richard Morris Hunt.” The Magazine Antiques, Vol. CXXIX, No. 4, April 1986.
Thompson, Jacqueline. “The Man Who Invented Society.” Forbes, Vol. 136, No. 11, October 28, 1985.
Tudury, Moran. “Ward McAllister.” American Mercury, Vol. 8, June 1926.
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Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr. [IV]. ‘The Future of the American Dynasties.’ Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 199, No. 27, January 8, 1927.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr. [IV]. “It Is Hard to Be a Rich Man’s Son.” Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 199, No. 23, December 4, 1926.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr. [IV]. ‘The Vanderbilt Feud,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 73, No. 77, July 1956.
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NEWSPAPERS
Brooklyn Eagle
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Record Herald
New York Commercial Advertiser
New York Daily Graphic
New York Daily Tribune
New York Evening Express
New York Evening Journal
New York Evening Post
New York Herald
New York Herald Tribune
New York Journal
New York Mail
New York Star
New York Sun
New York Sunday Mercury
New York Sunday News
New York Times
New York World
Philadelphia Press
BOOKS
Adams, Charles F., Jr., and Henry Adams. Chapters of Erie and Other Essays. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. The Big Change. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. The Great Pierpont Morgan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. The Lords of Creation. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. Since Yesterday. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Amory, Cleveland. The Last Resorts. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.
Amory, Cleveland. Who Killed Society? New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.
Andrews, Wayne. Architecture, Ambition and Americans. New York: Free Press, 1964.
Andrews, Wayne. Architecture in New York. New York: Atheneum, 1969.
Andrews, Wayne. The Vanderbilt Legend. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941.
Ashbury, Herbert. Sucker’s Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America from the Colonies to Canfield. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938.
Aslet, Clive. The Last Country Houses. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982.
Bailyn, Bernard, et al. The Great Republic. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977.
Baker, Paul R. Richard Morris Hunt. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986.
Ball, Don, Jr. America’s Colorful Railroads. New York: Bonanza Books, 1978.
Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt. The Glitter and the Gold. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.
Barlow, Elizabeth. Frederick Law Olmsted’s New York. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972.
Barmash, Isadore. The Self-made Man. New York: Macmillan Company, 1969.
Barrett, Richard. Good Old Summer Days. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1941.
Beebe, Lucius. The Big Spenders. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1966.
Beebe, Lucius. Mansions on Rails. Berkeley, Calif.: Howell-North, 1959.
Beer, Thomas. The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.
Behrman, S. N. Duveen. New York: Random House, 1952.
Belmont, Eleanor Robson. The Fabric of Memory. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
Beveridge, Albert J. The Life of John Marshall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.
Birmingham, Stephen. America’s Secret Aristocracy. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987.
Birmingham, Stephen. Our Crowd. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
Birmingham, Stephen. The Right People. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1968.
Bocca, Geoffrey. The Woman Who Would Be Queen. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1954.
Bradley, Hugh. Such Was Saratoga. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1940.
Brough, James. Consuelo: Portrait of an American Heiress. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979.
Brown, Eve. Champagne Cholly: The Life and Times of Maury Paul. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1947.
Brown, Henry Collins. Fifth Avenue Old and New. New York: Fifth Avenue Association, 1924.
Browne, Junius Henri. The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1869.
Bryce, James. The American Commonwealth. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889.
Burden, Shirley. The Vanderbilts in My Life. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1981.
Burnham, Sophy. The Landed Gentry. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1978.
Burt, Nathaniel. First Families. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.
Cecil, William A. V. Biltmore. Asheville, N.C.: Biltmore Company, 1975.
Choules, John O. The Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854.
Churchill, Allen. The Improper Bohemians. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1959.
Churchill, Allen. The Splendor Seekers. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1974.
Churchill, Allen. The Upper Crust: An Informal History of New York’s Highest Society. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970.
Churchill, Winston S. Marlborough. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1947.
Clews, Henry. Fifty Years in Wall Street. New York: Irving Publishing Company, 1908.
Clute, J. J. Annals of Staten Island. New York: Press of Chas. Vogt, 1877.
Cochran, Thomas C. Railroad Leaders: 1845-1890. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953.
Cowles, Virginia. The Astors. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.
Cox, Archibald. The Court and the Constitution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987.
Crockett, Albert Stevens. Peacocks on Parade. New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1931.
Croffut, A. The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune. New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, 1886.
Crowninshield, Francis W. Manners for the Metropolis. New York: D. Apple-ton and Company, 1909.
Dayton, Fred Erving. Steamboat Days. New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1925.
Decies, Elizabeth. Turn of the World. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937.
Deems, Charles Force. Autobiography of Charles Force Deems…and Memoir by His Sons Rev. Edward M. Deems…and Francis M. Deems. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1897.
Dennis, James M. Karl Bitter: Architectural Sculptor. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.
Depew, Chauncey M. My Memories of Eighty
Years. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922.
Depew, Chauncey M. Orations and After-Dinner Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew. New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1890.
Depew, Chauncey M. A Retrospect of 25 Years with the New York Central Railroad and Its Allied Lines, 1866-1891. New York: DeVinne Press, 1892.
Downing, Antoinette F., and Vincent J. Scully, Jr. The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island. New York: American Legacy Press, 1982.
Dressier, Marie. My Own Story. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1934.
Drexler, Arthur, ed. The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977.
Eliot, Elizabeth. Heiresses and Coronets: The Story of Lovely Ladies and Noble Men. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
Elliott, Maude Howe. This Was My Newport. Cambridge, Mass.: Mythology Company, 1944.
Elliott, Maud Howe. Uncle Sam Ward and His Circle. New York: Macmillan Company, 1938.
Fiske, Stephen. Off-hand Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers. New York: Geo. R. Lockwood & Son, 1884.
Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
Folsom, Merrill. Great American Mansions and Their Stories. New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1963.
Ford, Henry Jones. The Cleveland Era. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1921.
Friedman, B. H. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1978.
Friedman, Lawrence M. A History of American Law. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973.
Fuller, Robert H. Jubilee Jim: The Life of Colonel James Fisk, Jr. New York: Macmillan Company, 1928.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.
Gannon, Thomas. Newport Mansions: The Gilded Age. Little Compton, R.L: Foremost Publishers, 1982.
Gardiner, Alexander. Canfield: The True Story of the Greatest Gambler. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930.
Garraty, John A. The Great Depression. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
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